Industrial information identification and retrieval system

    公开(公告)号:US11860964B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-02

    申请号:US16923110

    申请日:2020-07-08

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    CPC classification number: G06F16/9538 G06F16/951

    Abstract: An industrial information identification and retrieval system includes: a crawler; a search engine; a result processor; and a web user interface “web UL” The crawler identifies devices and their associated Open Platform Communication Unified Architecture “OPC UA” servers within a network as identified OPC UA servers. The crawler browses the identified OPC UA servers and extracts and stores data items in a database as extracted data items. The search engine searches the extracted data items and provides search results to the result processor. The result processor determines a score for each search result. The web UI presents the search results according to the scores.

    METHOD OF CHANNEL MAPPING IN AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210018901A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-21

    申请号:US16929143

    申请日:2020-07-15

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A method of channel mapping in an industrial process control system includes: a) discovering a plurality of devices within the industrial process control system; b) obtaining at least one signal characteristic for each of the plurality of devices; c) determining channel mapping by a processing unit acting as a channel mapping agent, the plurality of devices being mapped to a plurality of communication channels, the channel mapping mapping each device to a communication channel for signal transmission, and the determining including utilizing the at least one signal characteristic for each of the plurality of devices; and d) configuring the devices according to the channel mapping.

    Edge utility management
    13.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12267224B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-01

    申请号:US18193821

    申请日:2023-03-31

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: An edge utility management method includes receiving an application to be deployed on an edge device, wherein the application comprises a plurality of separately-deployable application parts; obtaining application profiles for one or more of the applications parts; obtaining hardware profiles for one or more hardware resources of the edge device; deploying the application parts to selected hardware resources based on the application profiles and the hardware profiles; and facilitating communication between the deployed application parts during execution of the application.

    Flexible Update Mechanism for Stateful Applications

    公开(公告)号:US20220350644A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-03

    申请号:US17729568

    申请日:2022-04-26

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A computer-implemented update management method for managing transfer of an application state from a source node to at least one target node of a distributed control system, includes identifying a first part of the application state which can be transferred independently of a second part of the application state; determining that the first part can be transferred from the source node to the at least one target node during one execution cycle of the application; performing a first partial update by transferring the first part of the application state from the source node to the at least one target node during a first execution cycle of the application; and performing a second partial update by transferring the second part of the application state from the source node to the at least one target node during a second, subsequent execution cycle of the application.

    Method for Real-Time Updating of Process Software

    公开(公告)号:US20220308859A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-29

    申请号:US17703357

    申请日:2022-03-24

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: A system and method for real time updating of process applications includes a first execution engine executing a first process application to control a process device, an update manager receiving an updated software, the update manager being a second software container deployed in the deployment unit; initializing the updated software in a second execution engine; determining an application state of the first process application; instructing a transfer of the application state from the first execution engine to the second execution engine; instructing the second execution engine to execute the updated process application using the received application state; and instructing the first execution engine to stop writing output signals for the process device, and instructing the second execution engine to write output signals for the process device.

    INDUSTRIAL FIELD DEVICE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20220066436A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-03

    申请号:US17407195

    申请日:2021-08-20

    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

    Abstract: An industrial field device replacement system includes: an input unit; and a processing unit. The input unit receives an identification of a specific device to be replaced, the specific device being in a network of a plurality of devices, and the input unit providing the identification of the specific device to the processing unit. Prior to replacement of the specific device, the processing unit determines one or more further devices of the plurality of devices that would be affected by replacement of the specific device, the determination including utilization of the identification of the specific device. Prior to replacement of the specific device, the processing unit changes a mode of operation of the one or more further devices from a normal mode into a safe mode such that the one or more further devices will not be affected when the specific device is not available.

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